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I making a socket update script for my script and I`m wondering how I actually download the new file (e.g newversion.exe) to my computer and where it`s laid...

Thanks!

If you can't do that, don't depend on other's work. You can always tell user how to download an update using www browser. If you want to learn sockets, go to www.mircscripts.org -> tutorials. Don't rip, it's so lame.

Giving some guidelines isn't too much to ask imo

You'd need to do the following steps (might miss one or two, it's early for me )

1) Make connection with fileserver where update file is located ( /help /sockopen )
2) On connection, send the file request (HTTP request i assume, so you need to study the HTTP protocol to find out how the request looks like) ( /help /sockwrite )
3) Server will be sending the file-data, store this info in a new file ( /help /sockread /help /write )
4) When filetransfer is completed, close connection ( /help /sockclose )

The idea is pretty obvious but the /help <command> should point you to your way.

Thanks! But it really doesn`t help me much... I`ve figured out where the file is laid. I tried to use bwrite to copy the file from the server but it only downloads 210 kb and there is no filename... What do I do?

Plis help me! Thanks!

Well post the part of your script where you are trying to download it so we (or I) can point out any mistakes or flaws.

If you actually read 210kb of the file then you are probably doing something wrong in your while loop where you retrieve data from the server.

I got it to work! I joined #help and got a guy there to help me...
But thanks for your help and interest!